Why is september so...

[JadedRaverLA]

Originally Posted by ryoohki

Each years it have been the same since Media existed... here how it works

Jan-April : Pretty Much nothing
May-July : A little peak
August : Starting to Pick up
September-October : More and More
November-December : Highest Peak

This apply to Games, Media and theater, except that Theater have a nice boost in May-July due to Blockbusters of the Summer

I really hate it when people do this, but +1!!!!! Saved me from typing it out. As you pointed out, Cinema's schedule is quite a bit different (explained a bit more below).

Originally Posted by TheJesus

Also I guess september through december is when people begin shopping for christmas

Well, people don't really start spending money till November (in recent years), but you need to spread out the releases a bit so Sept. - Dec. are always the peak period.

More importantly this year, there's a lot of replication capacity coming online shortly, so the studios can start putting out more releases. (This has been an ongoing issue for awhile now, but should be resolved going forward.) Q3 is already over 200 announced and dated titles and Q4 will be considerably larger than that once the "official" announcements are made.

Originally Posted by jchap31

September is when the movie studios start releasing the "really" crappy movies (go pull up September 2007 and see what I mean). More people turn to home video during that time and ignore the megaplexes.

By "really" crappy do you mean the potential Oscar-winners? Late Jan. - April is when they dump the crap. May - Aug is when they release everything that requires more testosterone than brain cells to enjoy -- though New Line and Universal seem to have figured out that women still go to movies too during the summer. And of course Disney/Pixar know the kids are out of school. Sept - October is a bit of a transition, as they move from summer blockbusters to the critical "darlings," with a brief stop for horror-fest just before Halloween. A lot of cool independent films come out in limited release in this period, though. Nov - Dec is true Oscar season (apparently no voting members of the Academy can remember a movie for more than 2 months after they see it), plus a couple of blockbusters to be released for the holidays.